[  Union  Campaign  Docs.,  No.  7.] 

THE  NEW  YORK  DEMOCRACY 

AND 

VALLANDIGHAM. 


They  Indorse  the  Traitor  and  wink  at  the  Treason. 


Now  that  Vallandigham  is  defeated,  the 
organs  of  the  Seymour  democracy  inl  this 
state  attempt  to  disown  him!  They  insist 
that  they  never  had  any  fellowship  or  sym- 
pathy with  him ;  that  they  were  opposed  to 
his  nomination,  and  are  more  than  half  re- 
joiced at  his  overthrow. 

This  will  not  do.  They  cannot  escape  the 
repulsive  affiliation.  Their  sympathy  with 
the  fallen  traitor  is  patent  to  all  men.  Their 
efforts  to  make  a  martyr  of  him  have  passed 
into  history.  They  stand  committed  before 
the  world  as  his  chief  backers  and  champions. 
They  are  convicted  before  the  tribunal  of  pub- 
lic opinion  of  having  threatened  revolution  in 
his  behalf.  The  proof  of  their  complicity 
with  him  is  clear  and  overwhelming. 

VALLANDIGHAM,  THE  IDOL  OF  THE  NEW 
YORK  DEMOCRACY. 

It  may  be  worth  while,  before  adducing  this 
proof  to  refer  briefly  to  the  record  of  this  idol 
of  the  Copperhead  Democracy.  Mr.  Vallan- 
digham was  the  choice,  not  of  Northern  Free- 
men, but  of  Southern  Rebels.  His  name  was 
first  suggested  by  the  organs  of  Jeff.  Davis. 
The  Copperheads  of  "  Ohio  "  simply  ratified 
the  dictum  of  their  Southern  masters,  that  he 
should  be  their  standard-bearer.  He  was 
everywhere — both  at  home  and  abroad — re- 
cognized as  the  agent  and  emissary  of  the 
Secessionists.  The  Richmond  Examiner 
claimed  him  as  a  man  after  its  own  heart. 
The  Richmond  Enquirer  proposed  to  get  up 


a  testimonial  in  his  behalf  in  the  shape  of  a 
victory  over  Rosecrans. 

HIS  RECORD. 

The  Rebel  Maury,  in  his  letter  to  the  Lon- 
don Times,  declared  that 

"  VALLANDIGHAM  WAITS  AND  WATCHES 
OVER  THE  BORDER,  PLEDGED — IP  ELECT- 
ED GOVERNOR  OP  OHIO— TO  ARRAY  IT 
AGAINST  LINCOLN  AND  THE  WAR,  AND 
GO  FOR  PEACE." 

The  Chattanooga'  Rebel  exclaimed : 

"GOD  SPEED  YOU,  VALLANDIGHAM; 
WE  CAW  NEVER  HAVE  PEACE  WITHOUT 
DISUNION." 

Even  the  "  martyr"  himself  admitted  that 
unless  the  Rebels  could  hold  on  to  Vicks- 
burgh,  he  would  be  "  beaten  out  of  sight." 
He  associated  exclusively  at  Washington  with 
the  leaders  of  the  Rebellion.  He  traveled 
with  Breckinridge  when  the  latter  left  his 
place  in  the  Senate  to  take  his  place  in  the 
Rebel  Army,  and  accepted  an  ovation  at  the 
hands  of  the  Baltimore  Secessionists.  It  may 
be  worth  while  to  quote  the  telegraphic  re- 
port of  the  "  reception"  of  the  brace  of  Trai- 
tors: 

EXCITEMENT  IN  BALTIMORE. 
BRECKINRIDGE  AND  VALLANDIGHAM  ENTERTAINED 
BY  TRAITORS — THEY   ARE    SERENADED — UNION 
MEN  WON'T  ALLOW  THEM  TO  SPEAK. 

Baltimore,  August  8,  1861. 
Messrs.  Breckinridge  and  Vallandigham  have 
partaken  of  a  grand  dinner  at  the  Eutaw  House, 
this  evening,  given  by  Baltimore  Secessionists. 
At  11  o'clock  they  were  serenaded  by  the  Blue's 
band.  Mr.  Breckinridge  is  now  attempting  to 
speak,  but  is  constantly  interrupted  by  cheers 


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for  Crittenden,  Gen.  Scott,  the  Kentucky  elec- 
tion, and  for  the  Union.  It  is  impossible  to 
hear  what  he  is  endeavoring  to  say. 

There  are  several  thousand  persons  present, 
a  majority  of  whom  are  Union  men.  They  call 
on  the  band  for  the  Star-spangled  Banner, 
Yankee  Doodle,  &c,  but  can  get  nothing  from 
them  but  Dixie  and  the  Marseilles.  All  at- 
tempts to  quiet  the  people  were  responded  to 
by  the  cries  of  M  Remember  the  10th  of  April." 
"  Remember  the  week  of  terror."  Several 
fights  have  occurred. 

Mr.  Breckinridge  retired  without  speaking, 
and  the  cheers  of  his  friends  were  deafened 
amid  the  groans  and  hisses. 

Mr.  Vallandigham  did  not  attempt  to  speak, 
and  the  crowd  dispersed  with  cheers  for  the 
Union  and  groans  for  Jeff.  Davis,  interrupted 
by  counter  cheers  and  groans. 

He  has  been  as  faithful  to  the  interests  Of 
his  Southern  masters  as  the  needle  to  the 
pole.  Every  public  and  private  utterance — 
every  word  that  has  fallen  from  his  lips — re- 
veal his  disloyal  instincts.  In  a  speech  at 
Dayton,  in  August,  1862,  he  declared : 

"  I  HAVE  NOT  VOTED  FOR  ANY  ARMY 
OR  NAVY  BILL,  OR  ANY  ARMY  OR  NAVY 
APPROPRIATION,  SINCE  THE  MEETING  OF 
CONGRESS  ON  THE  4th  OF  JULY,  1861." 

On  another  occasion  he  uttered  these  abomi- 
nable sentiments  : 

"  Then,  Sir,  I  am  not  a  Southern  man  either 
—ALTHOUGH  IN  THIS  MOST  UNHOLY  AND 
UNCONSTITUTIONAL  CRUSADE  AGAINST 
the  SOUTH,  in  the  midst  of  THE  INVASION, 
ARSON,  INSURRECTION  AND  MURDER  TO 
WHICH  SHE  HAS  BEEN  SUBJECT,  and  with 
which  she  is  still  threatened — with  the  TORCH 
OF  THE  INCENDIARY  AND  THE  DAGGER 
OF  THE  ASSASSIN  SUSPENDED  OVER  HER 
—MY  MOST  CORDIAL  SYMPATHIES  ARE 
WHOLLY  WITH  HER." 

On  the  6th  of  February,  1861,  he  submitted 
a  scheme  in  the  House,  proposing  to  dissolve 
the  present  Union,  and  erect  on  its  ruins  "four 
geographical  sections." 

HE  HELPS  THE  REBELS  GET  ARMS 

He  assisted  the  Rebels  in  getting  arms  with 
which  to  strike. down  the  Government,  as  will 
be  seen  by  the  following  letter : 

House  of  Reheesentatives,  ) 
Washington,  D.  C,  January  16,  1861.  J 
Kittridge     Co.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio: 

Gents — A  friend  of  mine,  a  member  of  the 
House,  desires  to  purchase  seventy-five  or  more 
Minie  muskets  of  the  same  kind  you  furnished 
Colonel  King,  of  Dayton,  for  the  Zouave  Guards, 
and  at  the  same  price,  $9.  If  you  can  furnish 
seventy-five,  or  perhaps  a  good  many  moie,  send 
me  one  here  by  express  as  a  sample,  at  once. 

Very  truly,        C.  L.  Vallandigham. 

P.  S. — How  about  the  accoutrements  ? 


HE  CONSISTENTLY  OPPOSES  THE  GOVERN- 
MENT. 

The  "  friend  "  was  one  of  the  leading  Rebels. 
Vallandigham  made  it  his  boast  that  he  never 
voted  a  dollar  for  carrying  on  the  war  for  the 
Union,  voted  for  expelling  a  member  for  hav- 
ing gone  into  the  Union  array,  and  voted 
against  expelling  a  member  for  having  taken 
up  arms  in  the  Rebel  cause,  voted  against  a 
resolution  commending  the  course  of  Major 
Anderson  at  Fort  Sumter,  and  objected  to  the 
consideration  of  a  resolution  requesting  the 
Secretary  of  the  Treasury  to  "  employ  a  suf~ 
ftcient  force  to  protect  our  commerce  from 
the  pirates  that  now  infest  our  seas" 

HE  IS  CANONIZED  AS  A  "  MARTYR." 

And  yet  this  man,  covered  over  and  blis- 
tered with  treason  as  he  is,  HAS  BEEN 
PARADED  BY  THE  DEMOCRATIC  MAN- 
AGERS INTHIS  STATE  AS  A  "MARTYR," 
AND  HIS  ARREST  IN  THE  MIDST  OP 
HIS  CRIMINAL  WORK  DENOUNCED  AS 
AN  "  OUTRAGE." 

GOVERNOR  SEYMOUR  RESENTS  THE  "  OUT- 
RAGE," AND  CRIES  "  PAUSE." 

Governor  Seymour  hearing  of  such  arrest, 
made  haste  to  vent  his  holy  horror  in  such 
words  as  these : 

"  The  sa  fety  of  our  persons,  the  security  of  our 
property  will  hereafter  depend  upon  the  arbitrary 
icills  of  such  military  rulers  as  may  be  placed  over 
us,  u  hile  our  constitutional  guarantees  xcill  be  broken 
down.  Even  now  the  Governors  and  the  Courts 
of  some  of  the  great  Western  States  have  sunk 
into  insignificance  before  the  despotic  powers 
claimed  and  exercised  by  military  men  who 
have  been  sent  into  their  borders.  It  is  a  fearful 
thing  to  increase  the  danger  which  now  over- 
hangs us  by  treating  the  Law,  the  Judiciary  and 
the  authorities  of  States  with  contempt.  The 
people  of  this  country  now  wait  with  the  deepest 
anxiety  the  de  isions  of  the  Administration 
upon  these  acts.  Having  given  it  a  generous 
support  in  the  conduct  of  the  war,  WE  NOW 
PAUSE  TO  SEE  WHAT  KIND  OF  GOVERN- 
MENT IT  IS  FOR  WHICH  WE  ARE  ASKED 
TO  POUR  OUT  OUR  BLOOD  AND  OUR 
TREASURES. 

"  The  action  of  the  Administration  will  deter- 
mine in  the  minds  of  more  than  one  half  of 
the  people  of  the  loyal  States  whether  this  war 
is  waged  to  put  down  rebellion  at  the  South,  or 
to  destroy  free  institutions  at  the  North.  We 
look  for  its  decision  with  the  most  solemn  soli- 
citude." 

HONORS  TO  THE  "  MARTYR"  IN  ALBANY. 
A  meeting  to  sympathize  with  the  martyr 
and  denounce  his  "  kidnappers  "  was  held  at 


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the  Capitol  in  Albany.  The  following  is  ajdigham,  sent  the  following  dispatch  to  the 
copy  of  the  handbill  convoking  the  Democracy . ;  Convention  : 

__T_    _ — .  att    a  -NTTAT/-"  ttam  JUDGE  PARKER'S  TELEGRAM  TO  OHIO  CON- 

THE  VALLANDIGHAM  vention  then  in  session: 

0 1  I    T    D     A     ^    ET        "  I  hope  you  will  rebuke  despotism  and 
U      I     I  \    i\    \Ji    I—  ■  vindicate  constitutional  liberty,  by  making 
  Vallandigham  Governor  of  Ohio." 

[See  Atlas  $  Argus  of  June  18th,  1863.] 


MEETIlSTGr 

AT  THE 

CAPITOL 

IN  BEnALF  OF 

PERSONAL  FREEDOM! 


At  a  meeting  of  tho  Democratic  Republican  General 
Committee,  of  the  City  of  Albany,  held  on  the  13th  ; 
inst.,  the  following  Preamble  and  Resolutions  were  i 
unanimously  adopted  : 

Whereas,  A  citizen  of  Ohio,  CLEMENT  L.  VAL- 
LANDIGHAM. for  no  other  offense  than  addressing  a  ! 
public  meeting  of  his  fellow  citizens,  upon  the  principles 
and  conduct  of  the  Administration,  has  been  seized  at 
night,  by  military  force,  and  carried  oft' and  tried  before 
a  military  tribunal,  and  condemned  to  an  infamous  and  ' 
degrading  punishment,  unknown  to  the  laws  — 

And,  Whereas,  "We  regard  this  outrage  as  a  clear  vio 
lation  of  the  Constitution,  an  assault  upon  the  rights  of  j 
every  State,  a  threat  at  the  liberty  of  every  citizen,  and  j 
an  attack  upon  the  supremacy  of  the  law  itself,  there- 
fore 

Resolved,  That  the  Democrats  of  the  city  of  Albany,  i 
and  all  citizens  who  cherish  the  sanctity  of  constitutional 
rights,  be  invited  to  meet  at  the 

CAPITOL, 
ON  SATURDAY  EVENING, 

MAY  16TH,  AT  8  O'CLOCK, 

To  express  their  indignation  at  this  outrage,  and  pro- 
test against  its  consummation. 

HEjVRY  CRAjVDALLj  Chairman  pro  tem. 

Eichard  Parr,  Jr.,  M.  Belehanty, 

Secretaries  pro  tem. 


The  following  gentlemen  have  been  invited  to  Address 
the  Meeting : 

HON.  HORATIO  SEYMOUR, 

Hon.  A.  J.  Parker,         Hon.  Francis  Kernan, 
Hon.  Sanford  E.  Church,  Hon.  Richard  O'Gorman, 
Hon.  John  Murphy,        Ira  Shafer,  Esq. 

AND  OTHERS. 

At  the  meeting,  speeches  not  only  denounc- 
ing the  government,  but  hinting  at  revolution, 
were  made  by  the  Hon.  Amasa  J.  Parker. 
Francis  Kernan  and  others. 

HIS  NOMINATION  DEMANDED  BY  MESSRS. 
SEYMOOR  &  CO. 

Nor  was  this  all.    The  Democratic  leaders, 

in  this  state  dictated  the  nomination  of  the 

"  Martyr  "  for  Governor  of  Ohio.  Judge 

Parker,  fearing  that  the  Ohio  Copperheads 

might  lack  the  pluck  to  obey  the  mandate  of 

the  Chattanooga  Rebel  by  nominating  Vallan- 


•JUDGE  PARKER  THINKS  THE  ELECTION  OF 
VALLANDIGHAM  WILL  BE  A  li  GLORIOUS 
SPECTACLE." 

[Extract  from  Judge  Parker's  speech  at  tho  Brooklyn 
Meeting.] 

"I  wrote  to  Mr.  Cox,  saying  that  I  hoped  his 
people  would  rebuke  despotism  and  vindicate 
constitutional  liberty  by  making  Vallandig- 
ham  the  Governor  of  Ohio.  (Great  cheering 
and  waving  of  hats  and  handkerchiefs.) 
And  I  am  told  that  the  bulletin  to-night  an- 
nounces the  fact  that  he  has  been  nominated, 
(continued  applause,)  and  I  say  that  Ohio 
will  be  unworthy  of  the  government  be- 
queathed to  her,  if  she  does  not  elect  him.  It 
would  be  a  glorious  spectacle  to  see  the  People 
of  Ohio  walk  up  to  the  ballot  box  and  de- 
posite  their  votes  for  Vallandigham." — Atlas 
$  Argus,  Monday  June  loth,  1863. 

THE  OHIO  COPPERHEADS  "  HEARTILY  EN- 
DORSE GOV.  SEYMOUR." 

PROCEEDINGS  OF  OHIO  STATE  CONVEN- 
TION. 

Special  Despatch  to  the  "World. 

Columbus,  Ohio,  June  11,  1863. 
"  Governor  Seymour  of  New  York  was 
heartily  endorsed.  A  despatch  from  Judge 
Parker  counselling  the  Democracy  to  rebuke 
despotism  by  electing  Vallandigham  was  read 
and  repeatedly  cheered." — Atlas  $  Argus,  June 
13,  1863. 

THE  MANDATE  OBEYED-JOY  OF  THE 
ALBANY  ARGUS 

The  mandate  of  Judge  Parker  was  obeyed. 
Whereupon  the  Albany  Argus  gave  vent  to 
its  joy  in  these  words  : 

The  poor  Exile  was  unconscious,  while 
struggling  to  escape  from  the  fate  to  which 
governmental  treachery  had  consigned  him, 
that  the  greatest,  most  enthusiastic  and  most 
determined  Convention  of  the  People  ever  held 
in  Ohio,  had  nominated  him  for  the  office  of 
Governor. 

THE  ARGUS  DEMANDS  THE  ELECTION  OF 
"THE  MARTYR." 

But  the  Argus  did  not  stop  here.  Fearing 
lest  its  brethren  might  lack  the  courage  to 


stand  by  the  "  Martyr,"  it  issued  the  follow- 
ing "general  order  "  to  the  Copperhead  troops 
in  Ohio : 

THEY  MUST  ELECT  HIM.  HE  MUST 
BE  TURN  IN  TRIUMPH  TO  THE  CHIEF 
MAGISTRACY  OF  THE  STATE  FROM 
WHICH  HE  HAS  BEEN  SO  INFAMO  USL  Y 
EXILED.  HE  MUST  TAKE  THE  PLACE 
OF  THE  EXECUTIVE  WHO  CONNIVED 
AT  AND  SUBMITTED  TO  HIS  DEPORTA- 
TION. And  that  Executive,  reversing  positions, 
must  submit  himself,  before  the  Criminal  law,  on 
the  charges  already  preferred,  of  assisting  in 
the  kidnapping  of  other  citizens  of  Ohio. 

The  men  who  have,  with  such  acclaim,  pre- 
sented the  exile  for  the  highest  office  of  state, 
must  fulfill  their  purpose.  Enthusiasm,  at  a 
crisis  like  the  present,  is  idle,  unless  it  leads  to 
successful  action.  MR.  VALLANDIGHAM 
MUST  NOT  BE  EXP  OSED  TO  A  REB  UKE. 
A  MOVEMENT  LIKE  THIS  MUST  RE- 
CEIVE ITS  CROWNING  DIGNITY,  BY 
ATTAINING  THE  ATTITUDE  OF  ACTUAL 
POWER." 


THE  ARGUS  AGAIN  CRACKS  THE  WHIP. 

Four  months  later  the  Argus  reviewed  its 


forces  in  Ohio,  and  issued  another  order, 
closing  in  these  encouraging  terms : 

"  The  Democrats  of  Ohio  are  fighting  a  gallant 
and  vigorous  battle  in  behalf  of  personal  ANn 
Constitutional  Liberty.  In  no  State  has  the 
issue  been  more  birectly  made — in  none  have 
the  vital  principles  involved  in  the  present 
election^  been  brought  more  directly  before  the  peo- 
ple." 

THE  MANDATE  SPURNED  BY  THE  PEOPLE. 

But  the  mandate  was  not  heeded.  The 
People  of  Ohio  refused  to  obey  the  orders  of 
the  Democratic  leaders  of  New  York.  They 
disregarded  the  admonition  of  Gov.  Seymour. 
They  disobeyed  the  behest  of  Judge  Parker. 
They  laughed  to  scorn  the  crack  of  the  whip 
of  the  Argus.  They  dared  rebuke  Treason 
and  spurn  Traitors  in  spite  of  the  threatening 
voice  of  the  Democracy  of  New  York. 

Freemen  of  New  York !  will  you  support  a 
party  that  thus  openly  affiliates  with  traitors  ? 
Will  you  indorse,  by  the  election  of  the  Demo- 
cratic ticket,  the  disloyal  course  of  Vallandig- 
ham  Bright  and  Pierce  ? 


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AVERY* 
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